Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...However thin you spread it, peanut butter is in short supply and increasingly expensive as a result of last summer's drought in the producing states. The impending sandwich crisis may be averted, however. From Texas, which also helps fill the oil gap, comes a substitute spread that sticks to roofs of mouths as fondly as the real stuff. Made from organically grown glandless cotton nut kernels mixed with 15% peanut oil, the American nut butter is higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut preserve. The Madeleine & Charlotte's brand, available in chunky salted and creamy...
...other assistant managers, never really managed, but he drank coffee, ate doughnuts, and leered at the younger cashiers. AT 5-ft., 7-in., he packed away a lot of doughnuts and weighed at least 300 pounds. In contrast, Susan, the head cashier, was 6-ft., 2-in., and thin as a Super-Saver broom stick. She wore spike heels, tight pants, and gobs of Super-Saver make-up. Greg, yet another assistant manager, often enjoyed touching Susan secretively in the store room near the trash compacter. I never found out why he was fired in mid-August, but Susan...
...identical to their single parent. In this kind of unisex reproduction, there is no chance for bacteria to inherit fresh characteristics that might help improve their chances of survival. But every so often two cells have a sort of sexual dalliance called conjugation. They approach each other, send out thin tubes that bring the cells together, and transfer genes. In the exchange, a bacterium may pick up, say, a gene for making an enzyme that cuts up and destroys certain antibiotics. All the bacterium's offspring will then inherit this life-preserving resistance and, in this way, defy medicine...
...Communist worldwide production of about 53 million bbl. per day. "It is absurd to talk of a glut," says one West German oilman. "So long as any one of a number of oil-producing nations can create shortages, the world's energy supply hangs by an exceedingly thin thread...
...costs creates a catch-22 squeeze. Even before Reagan proposed a cutback in the program, Denver had reduced its administrative staff from 173 workers to 83. This made it all the harder to catch cheaters and carefully to determine eligibility. Says Program Assistant Rosemary Engard: "We are stretched so thin that more errors are bound to occur. The paperwork has become horrendous...